STREET WEAR
When you are getting ready in the morning you probably first pick the base of your outfit. I always decide what I am going to wear right then and there in the closet in the morning, I never prepare the outfit day earlier (what can I say, I am living on the edge). Let's say we choose a nice leather pencil skirt with this season very popular plaid shirt and converse sneakers for a coffee date with girlfriends in the city.
If you are often running out of your apartment last minute like I am, then you grab your mascara and a lipstick, spend approximately 5 minutes searching for your car keys in your purse, finally get in the car (in my case I adjust the seat after my tall boyfriend who was driving the car before me), blast the music (cause without the music you simply can't start driving), put on a seat belt and then just do your make up in the car on the parking lot of a coffee shop when you arrive or at the long traffic light (I did it just a couple of times in my life, only when I was in extreme hurry of course ;)).
Now, let's say you are going out on a date with your boyfriend or a fashionable business brunch in a fancy restaurant. If not to formal you might want to wear shinny metallic silver flats, purple clutch, distressed boyfriend jeans with a sheer white blouse and shinny fuchsia rain coat while strolling down the main city street in your new shinny Fiat 500 in Chillout Purple to match your statement outfit ! Wouu! Talking about making an appearance!
SHINNY WEAR
"Entertaining Italian Engines are no longer reserved for millionaires caught in mid life crises."
It's not all about the looks! But looks matters!
My boyfriend often makes fun of me for not differentiating the types and brands of cars. I usually differentiate them and recognize them based on the way they look: color and shape. I want my car to be pretty, not to expensive, to have beautiful luxurious details like a leather steering wheel, pimping music system, room for my spare shoes in the back as I most often wear heels but drive in flats. I want it to be small enough so it's easy for me to park it anywhere (other then on parallel side spot, I never park parallel, those spots don't even count) but I want it to be big enough to fit my dog Papi and his cradle. Also, I want to be able to fit couple of my girlfriends in with their luggage if we decide to go for a weekend trip.On top, I want a car which is environmentally friendly as well. As I do put it time and effort with recycling trash and choosing Eco-friendly and refurbished vintage clothing pieces I don't want to cancel out all of my efforts with driving a car with high emissions.
The FIAT brand stands for discovery through passionate
self-expression. It encourages people to be in charge of their lives, live
confidently and celebrate the smallest of things with infectious excitement.
The new FIAT 500 Autumn/Winter Collection campaign has taken inspiration from
the well-known paper cut-out doll concept to strengthen the position of the FIAT
500 as a fashion accessory.
p.s. Check out also this hilarious commercial - seems like with Fiat 500, style and sense of fashion becomes contagious! Espresso anyone? ;)
p.s. Check out also this hilarious commercial - seems like with Fiat 500, style and sense of fashion becomes contagious! Espresso anyone? ;)
Disclosure: Compensation was provided by Fiat via Glam
Media. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not
indicative of the opinions or positions of Fiat/Fiat 500.
Photos: courtesy of Picard Croatia
As yesterday was my birthday and the past week was very busy travel week for me (Prague - Warsaw - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Budapest) I just managed to put together a giveaway post for you lovelies together with my blog partner - Picard Hrvatska. Where you are having an opportunity to win an amazing and totally on-trend pink snake skin Picard leather handbag! So here you go, award for you for my Happy Birthday! :)
Personally I love both snake skin and leopard print patterns (when carefully styled into an outfit). Luckily they are staying trendy across seasons in past few years seems like. We can see all from genuine leather to digital prints on dresses in these patterns. My favorite snake skin pattern is pink and grey on accessories (leather) and digital print on pencil skirt and dresses.
Here is a selection of other Picard purses I got my eye on:
Handbag model names: Amazona | My Case | Virginia
If I had this wonderful Bettsy handbag from Picard I would wear it daily with both casual clothes like for example Converse sneakers and tailored grey sweat pants and with soft t-shirt, leather jacket and McQueen cashmere scarf or in a more dress version with brown leather pencil skirt and white blouse on dark brown (maybe also snake skin) flats.
I love that this handbags because it is a statement piece on its own and it is not to small or not to big, you can wear it on one shoulder or across the body but also as a clutch if you put the belt inside.
Picard leather handbag Bettsy, 1579 kn | Picard valet Bettsy, 969 kn
In order to participate in this giveaway all you have to do is to:
1. Like Picard Hrvatska Facebook page
2.Write a comment describing the outfit OR add a photo of you of an outfit you would wear this handbag with below giveaway post on Picard's Facebook page.
3. Comment below this post to confirm you did steps 1 and 2 and provide your email address so I can let you know if you are a lucky winner!
Award: Picard leather handbag Bettsy made out of pink, snake skin pattern. Price: 1579 kn | 207 Euro.
Giveaway lasts from today 20.09. 3pm until 27.09. midnight the best outfit description and/or photo will be selected by Picard representative and me. This giveaway is limited for Croatia only upon partners request.
Good luck ladies! :)
Backstage photos: courtesy of Estee Lauder
Designers of Kenzo and their second 'baby' brand Humberto Leon and Carol Lim showed their debut collection for Opening Ceremony at New York Fashion Week in front of numerous celebrity friends.
Designers were inspired by combination of influences of busy suburban Southern California with it's street races (i.e. seat belts reference) and Carol Lim's homage to her Korean background featuring traces of traditional Korean garments like below cross strap tops and wrapped jackets.
Collection was rich with carefully combined street wear and high end pieces like tank dresses, cargo shorts and over-sized t-shirts and tailored almost unitards ;) Fun, young, bright and wearable, relaxed story. I selected below a number of pieces I would certainly wear!
Photos: Style.com
Backstage beauty story was told by (as you might have noticed from last posts) favorite make up artist and Estee Lauder creative director Tom Pecheux who created simple but beautiful looks using new Estee Lauder products shown on the photos on beautiful Estee Lauder model ambassador - Liu Wen.
NEW Revitalizing Supreme Global Anti-Aging Creme – launching November 2013.
Idealist Pore Minimizing Skin Refinisher
Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex II
Eyes: Pure Color Stay-on Shadow Paint in Halo, Pink Zinc or Chained (Matched with Skintone)
Cheeks: Bronze Goddess Powder Bronzer (Matched with Skintone)
Lips: NEW Pure Color Envy Lipstick in Insatiable Ivory – launching March 2014.
Brows: NEW Double Wear Stay-in-Place Brow Lift Duo – launching January 2014.
These amazing nails were done by Naomi Nails for Estee Lauder.
Nail Lacquer in Blue Blood | Overlay design: White and light blue acrylic paint
P.S. I want these nails. Trying to do it myself at home now (and failing miserably :/).
Photographer: Mare Milin for Elle Croatia
I had a pleasure to interview Ivan Badanjak, part of the VAIN designer team together with Timy Šarec. Ivan is part of a truly a hard working, business focused , tech savvy and creative duo. He shared with me his vision for this young and perspective fashion brand. Read the interview below to find out more!
What
is the meaning of your brand name – VAIN?
VAIN
is the anagram of my name – Ivan. Before I had a brand I was signing my designs
with my first name however when I started to collaborate with Timy we decided
to play with a logo which can describe my creative work to date.
How
did you decide to launch a brand together? How do you get along and collaborate
creatively?
Three
years ago we founded Studio Ploha in which we collaborate creatively in the
area of fashion, video and web design. We are working on the idea of founding a
fashion brand together for a long time now, it just took some time for idea to
mature and develop. VAIN fashion brand is the result of our creative maturity.
We are working together on all areas of brand development and business from
creation to realization and final product.
Photographer: Mladen Šarić | Models: Helena Babić and Tamara Pernar | Make up: Saša Joković
How
would you describe the ‘ideal’ VAIN women?
A
VAIN woman is a modern woman who uses clothing to accentuate her beauty.
In one of the interviews you said that VAIN is
the result of a long-term planning, how big of a risk is to launch a brand new
fashion brand in struggling economy on such a small market as Croatia is?
We
cannot influence on the economic situation. We felt ready and decided that we
are mature enough to take this next step. Good ideas do not wait for good
economic circumstances, you are ready for them or you are not. Croatian
economic situation we try to offset with hard work, professionalism, persistence
and creativity.
What
is the price range you have set for your brand?
We
define the price of our pieces based on the investment into good quality
fabrics and quality of making. We think that we have set the realistic prices
considering Croatian economic environment as we are currently focused on
domestic market. We plan to expand our product offering to shoes and
accessories as well but this will depend heavily on finances.
Photographer: Mladen Šarić | Models: Helena Babić and Tamara Pernar | Make up: Saša Joković
Do
you particularly admire any of the Croatian or international fashion designers?
Absolutely!
There is many of them. We are equally inspired and fascinated by costume
designers and fashion designers. When working creatively it is equally
important to be original as it is to be up to date with latest industry trends
even though the goal is to always try to come up with something new and fresh.
On
last season’s Cro-a-Porter fashion event you have shown your first, quite
successful collection which got positive reviews from fashion media. Do you
plan to continue to do seasonal collection and show season ahead fashion shows
or maybe like some international designer design pieces which can be worn
across seasons?
Currently
we are working on a new collection which we will show on Fall edition of
Cro-a-Porter. Fashion shows are part of fashion industry tradition which we
love so we will continue to show seasonal collections but in the future we
would like to make our shows available to wider audience by live streaming them
online. In between seasons we plan to launch capsule pre-season collections
featured by smaller campaigns.
Photographer: Mladen Šarić | Models: Helena Babić and Tamara Pernar | Make up: Saša Joković
Now
when Croatia became an EU Country, how fast do you plan to start selling on
international markets and what is your sales and marketing strategy for it?
Our
strategy is to first build a good base for our brand on local market. We want
to create national recognizable fashion brand as a priority. In the next three
years we plan to redirect part of the profit and invest it into showing on
international fashion fairs in fashion capitals in order to present our brand
to other, bigger markets. In parallel we plan to continue to develop strong
logistic and production so we could source our expansion properly and professionally.
Based
on your work so far you seem to be taking your brand building in a more
professional and planned way then some of your more experienced colleagues
especially when it comes to investing in marketing, PR and online platforms for
promoting your brand.
Building
a unique, recognizable and modern fashion brand is our imperative. Working in
Studio Ploha, building our clients brand we gained a certain experience which
enabled us to get the clear vision for direction, look, feel and direction for
our own brand.
We
present VAIN as modern European brand which successfully balances in between commercial
and creative out of the box product. Carefully planned promotion is the most
important tool for successful brand positioning on which we collaborate with
top industry professionals.
What
is your near future and long term plan for the brand development?
Our
daily work has become extremely dynamic so our plans are being executed in a
very short time period. One of our goals is opening our official selling location
in boutique store ROBA in Zagreb. This is a big challenge and an opportunity
for us as we will get to communicate directly with our clients and get their
feedback.
Photographer: Mladen Šarić | Models: Helena Babić and Tamara Pernar | Make up: Saša Joković
Also, we are preparing Fall/Winter 13’ collection which keeps us
creatively obsessed for weeks now. In near future we plan to also design men’s collection,
start presenting our brand to international markets and expand our product
portfolio to accessories, shoes, jewelry and perfumes.
Photographer: Mladen Šarić | Models: Helena Babić and Tamara Pernar | Make up: Saša Joković
"Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman
and loose enough to show you're a lady."
Edith Head
As the cold wind in the evening is announcing Fall I am slowly pulling out my favorite long sleeve maxi dresses out of the closet and preparing them for my September travels starting with Prague Fashion Week next weekend and then Barcelona at the end of the month.
While I am carefully ironing, steaming and hanging my favorite Fall one piece outfits I can't keep but wonder, why can't we wear gowns daily? So during Spring and Summer we could wear long romantic floaty day-gowns in bright colors and rich floral patterns or figure hugging drama dresses with high slip front for the evening parties over strapy sandals and heels, and Fall in Winter we could combine maxi long sleeve dresses with motorcycle boots and leather jacket (which is my all time favorite combo, especially for travels). This one piece outfit can be easily accessorized with necklaces, scarves and jackets. I just really like the comfortable feel and feminine look maxi dresses give me while in the same time hugging the curves and letting me move easily.
For this post I have selected a number of such Fall day-gowns I would love to wear from my favorite brands.
Photo source: Reformation maxi dresses
Photo source: Lei Lou by Alex Dojčinović maxi cotton dresses Helena and Severina
Photo source: both dresses Asos
"I love bold, colorful party dresses because they don't need accessories.
Just throw one on and you're done."
Cat Deeley
How do you like this look? Do you wear long dresses often? How do you style them?
Last weekend I had a rare opportunity to spend a weekend in Budapest and not having to spend it working so my roommate and a friend, who has the same name as I - Katarina went for an afternoon stroll around the tourist full, sunny Budapest. First we visited a wonderful WAMP fashion fair where we enjoyed creative handwork of young Hungarian but also other Central European artists and designers (I noticed some Serbian designers present as well) all from clothing, to vintage remade clothing and accessories to jewelry, food and home decor items.
For the stroll around the Budapest, I was wearing a top shop dress and vintage handbag and skinny brown belt and sandals. My roomate Katarina was wearing Zara leopard pointy flats and Mango green dress.
Later in the afternoon we went to check out the Fall/Winter collection of my new love, Hungarian and now also internationally recognized fashion designer Nanuska who had a pop-up store with her Summer collection discounted now to 60% for limited time only.
Afterwards, we were quite tired from navigating through groups and groups of tourists and we stopped for a salad and later a cup of Starbucks skinny peppermint mocha and caramel macchiato! :) On top, we got 'hollered at' - 'hey sexy' by a guy trying to sell us city tour thinking we were tourists. :)
How was your weekend lovelies? :)
“Fashion, it’s the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. I don’t think you could do away with it. It would be like doing away civilization.”
There are no words to express how much I adore this man.
I saw Bill once working when I was coming back from Anna Sui's studio to showroom I was working in with Karen, the showroom owner. I remember running in my heels, hands full of jewelry samples, trying to keep up with speed walking Karen. We passed next to Bill and Karen waved to him: "Hi Bill!" he waved back "Always nice to see you Karen!" with big smile on his face. Later in the showroom I asked her who was that peculiar old guy. She responded: "That is Bill. Bill is New York. Everyone knows Bill and Bill knows everyone who matters."
I saw Bill once working when I was coming back from Anna Sui's studio to showroom I was working in with Karen, the showroom owner. I remember running in my heels, hands full of jewelry samples, trying to keep up with speed walking Karen. We passed next to Bill and Karen waved to him: "Hi Bill!" he waved back "Always nice to see you Karen!" with big smile on his face. Later in the showroom I asked her who was that peculiar old guy. She responded: "That is Bill. Bill is New York. Everyone knows Bill and Bill knows everyone who matters."
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“You see, if you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what
to do. That’s the key to the whole thing. Don’t touch money. It’s the worst
thing you can do. Money is the cheapest thing. Liberty, freedom is the most
expensive thing.”
Bill Cunningham is The New York Times photographer and cultural anthropologist who is now more then 80 years old. For decades Bill has been riding his Schwinn bicycle and documenting fashion trends and high society charity soirees for The Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours".
You can now see his photos online in video form in his weekly column on the Times website, he just improvises, talks about his photos in the video, without a script and adds some interesting historic facts to his trend report, I listen to it every week, he is my reporter from New York. :)
You can now see his photos online in video form in his weekly column on the Times website, he just improvises, talks about his photos in the video, without a script and adds some interesting historic facts to his trend report, I listen to it every week, he is my reporter from New York. :)
Bill has been as he saids 'documenting' New York's uptown figures like Anna Wintour, David Rockefeller, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor and others as well as downtown eccentrics and stylish passersby on the streets of the City who's clothes interested him. We can freely say that Bill has pioneered the street-style photography.
“Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important… I do everything, really, for myself.”
What I love about Bill is his passion and love for his craft and dignity he projects. This old man is so happy when working, it's contagious! Most importantly, when Bill gets out on the street he does it without any preconceived notion, he just let's the street talks to him and he lets street trends tell him new fashion story every day. Bill never judges the trends, he just notices them, reports them and shares them using wonderful descriptive and warm words - you can tell he loves fashion. He knows so much about fashion and history it's absolutely incredible!
“I said many times that we all get dressed for Bill.”
Anna Wintour
In 2010. a documentary came out about Bill. Below is the teaser movie clip, I really urge you to watch the full documentary and get to know this very special man. He really changed the way I love fashion and the way I love New York.
Bill Cunningham New York is a 2010 documentary film directed
by Richard Press and produced by Philip Gefter. Bill Cunningham New York is distributed
by Zeitgeist Films and was released in theaters on March 16, 2011.
“I don’t work. I only know how to have fun every day.”
Here's to Bill.
A historian. An artist. Happy man. Gay man. Simple man. Energetic man. Lonely man.
Modest man. A kind man. A broken man. A legend.
September is here again, already! I get butterflies in my stomach, just like I did when working long hours in NYC showrooms before, during and after fashion week. There is that positive nervousness, anticipation and business in the air, everyone is running around in heels and typing vigorously on their iPhones, BBs and laptops and scheduling showroom appointments with buyers, all in preparation for these couple of days of craziness.
In this post I have gathered a number of interesting facts about most influential fashion weeks in the world as as well as the useful links and schedule of worlds top fashion weeks for your convenience, no matter if you plan to just watch your favorite designers live streams or attend the shows and showroom appointments in person.
Top four most important fashion weeks shows you can follow via live-stream on Fashion.TV, selected shows via Style.com or via event websites:
Other fashion weeks I like to follow are Copenhagen Fashion Week which took place already from 7th to 11th of August and Madrid Fashion Week showing SS 14. season 14-19th of September in Madrid.
Now some fun facts about New York Fashion Week :) Did you know that:
- New York Fashion Week was originally launched in 1943.and it was called "Press Week"
- In 1993. shows were consolidated and shown in Bryant park called "Seventh on Sixth"
- Every year about 90 shows and presentations are shown in Lincoln Center
- 270+ shows in total are shown during NY Fashion Week in Lincoln Center and supporting locations
- 4000+ registered journalists, photographers, bloggers and other members of the press
- 34 countries are represented by international press
- more then 100,000 attendees
- 15,000 Diet Pepsi are consumed in Lincoln Center during fashion week
- Average PR associate works 14 hours a day during a fashion week
- 10-20 min is duration of an average fashion show
Do you plan to follow designer shows for upcoming SS 2014 season? Which are your favorite shows to watch usually?
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